SIERRA LEONE INDEPENDENCE DAY THE PLOT BY SL NEWS BLOG Today is our country's independence day. After 150 years of British colonial misrule, Sierra Leone has been officially ruled by Sierra Leoneans for 61 years....yes, I said misrule because if the British colonial masters' goals and objectives were not focused on exploitation and the extraction of our resources to build their country, our country should've had invincible foundations that not even an atomic bomb could easily destroy. Our forebears took over Sierra Leone from the British colonial overlords after it had been massively robbed, inhabitants had been heavily exploited, and our people's brains had been firmly conditioned. Indeed, have we considered changing Sierra Leone's name to something more locally significant and capable of directly representing the people of Sierra Leone? The origins of the country's name are murky at best. It's even possible that Pedro de Sintra never